Pirates on Rocks' Ship 996

"It's alright... She's just a little girl, what bad intentions could she possibly have, right?" Reina waved his hand, signaling the members who were blocking her way to leave.

Bakala, standing there, looked utterly embarrassed.

Soon, the Moby Dick passed through a long passage and arrived at a large stage. However, perhaps because of the arrival of the Whitebeard Pirates, the place that should have been filled with countless ships was empty, but the seats around the stage were all occupied.

"Yo~~ Not bad! Look at this environment... It's really nice!" Everyone in the Whitebeard Pirates was looking around, and Reina noticed that the golden dust that was supposed to fall from the sky hadn't appeared.

"Oh!"

Just then, a voice rang out, and everyone looked towards the center. A man dressed in a formal suit and adorned with various gold jewelry appeared at the very front of the grand staircase.

"Who is this guy?" Ace asked, looking at the man who had suddenly appeared.

“He must be Gilder Tezzolo, the boss here, right?” Reina said with a smile.

"Your boss is quite something! I didn't expect him to perform a show himself?" Ace chuckled and said.

"I told you... our master performed on stage himself, that's why he didn't come to greet us! And you still have a problem with that!" Spido Kiel shook his head and said with a smile.

Bakara rolled her eyes; it seemed like he was the only one who had said that before.

Soon, in addition to Gilde Tezzolo, another female singer appeared. As she sang, the crowd in the stands around her began to cheer, as if she were very popular.

"Wow, quite a show of force! Looks like your boss takes this matter very seriously!" Reina said with a light laugh.

“Of course, you are all distinguished guests, so we will do our best to make you feel comfortable,” Bakara replied with a slight smile.

"Splash~~"

As the song progressed, an arched bridge appeared directly from the stage onto the Moby Dick, and this bridge was made entirely of gold.

"Tsk tsk tsk... That's quite a generous gesture!" Lakyo said with a slight smirk.

"Good evening, everyone. I am Gild Tesoro, the owner of this city and the king of this country! Thank you very much for your trust in having the auction held here! As agreed, you are all welcome to enjoy yourselves here before the auction begins!" Tesoro said, bowing to the white-bearded man as he walked across the bridge.

Reina glanced at the white-bearded man, and after the man nodded, he said, "First, put all the treasures except the ones I told you to keep close to your bodies into their vault, and then you're free to move around! Mr. Tesoro, I'd like to discuss the details of the auction in three days with you again!"

“No problem, Mr. Tanaka. Arrange for someone to come and take over the Whitebeard Pirates’ treasure and put it in the vault! Now, Lord Reina… please come with me! Bakara, take good care of the other distinguished guests!” Tesoro smiled slightly and instructed his subordinates.

After all the treasures were handed over, Reyna and a few crew members left with Tesoro, while Whitebeard and the rest of the crew began to tour the Golden City.

“Mr. Tesoro, the reason we are auctioning these treasures is for the second phase of construction on Crescent Moon Island. So, in addition to Berry, we are also buying various precious minerals and gold! Of course... if you are interested... the auction can be canceled, and you can take all our treasures directly. I don't mind!” Reina said directly when he arrived at Tesoro's office.

“Hahaha… Mr. Reina is so generous! But an auction is still very necessary! However, I can promise you all that I will take all the items that fail to sell, so that you can be guaranteed to leave with a full load! How about it?” Tezzolo replied with a loud laugh.

Reina smiled and nodded, replying, "That's no problem at all! There's one more thing... I hope Mr. Tezzolo can grant my request!"

"Please speak..."

“I need a list of attendees for the auction!” Reina said softly.

“This…” Tesoro hesitated for a moment and said, “Mr. Reina, it’s not that I’m unwilling, but as a businessman, I can’t sell my customers’ information! If I do that… who will dare to do business with me in the future?”

"Don't worry, I'm not trying to cheat you. As long as the items are auctioned through legitimate channels, I can guarantee they will never be taken back! I just want to know who's attending this auction!" Reina waved his hand and said with a light laugh.

“I see… To be honest, there are so many people coming and going here every day that I’m not sure who will be participating until the auction starts! But I can tell you which powerful figures will be coming!” Tesoro replied with a smile.

“Hehehe... Golden Emperor... Mr. Tezzolo! Do you know why we chose to hold the auction here?” Reina asked with a strange smile.

"Is there some other special reason? As the world's largest entertainment city, we have unique advantages, don't we?" Tesoro replied confidently.

"Tsk tsk tsk..." Reina shook his head, slowly fading his smile. After making himself more comfortable, he asked, "Then I'll ask again, may I have the list of everyone?"

Tezzolo's smile faded, and after looking at Reina for a moment, he replied, word by word, "Sorry... I really... can't..."

Reina stood up abruptly, startling all the guards around Tesoro, who stepped forward nervously to look at him.

However, Reina didn't make any unnecessary movements. After straightening his clothes, he said, "Then let's proceed as planned and hold the auction in three days! But I hope we can increase the publicity this time and also announce that we need a special mine!"

After saying that, Reina left with several crew members.

After Reina left, Mr. Tanaka suddenly appeared from underground, stood next to Tesoro, and said, "Boss... it seems the Whitebeard Pirates are planning something. Having them hold an auction here... I'm afraid it will drag us into it!"

Tezzolo didn't respond to Mr. Tanaka's words, but instead thought of Reina's question from earlier: "Do you know why we chose to hold the auction here?"

At first, he genuinely thought it was because of the reputation of the world's number one entertainment city, but now it seems... that's not the case.

"Tch~ I've been completely underestimated!" Tesoro said, pursing his lips.

Chapter 318: They All Make Their Appearance

After leaving Tesoro, Reina, guided by the waiter, arrived at the hot springs and found Whitebeard soaking in the hot springs.

"How's the matter going?" the white-bearded man asked lazily.

"That guy is even more ignorant than I thought! He thinks that just because his Devil Fruit ability has awakened, he can be considered a strongman!" Reina chuckled in response.

"Don't be too careless. Being able to cultivate a Devil Fruit to the point of awakening means you're already quite strong. Don't let yourself be caught off guard!" Whitebeard opened one eye, looked at Reina, and said.

"Don't worry, big brother, you don't trust me to handle things? There won't be any problems... right... Mr. Tezzolo!?" Reina said, looking up and grinning at a secluded spot.

Tezzolo, who overheard Reina's words through the surveillance camera, instantly felt his hair stand on end.

Immediately afterward, Reina waved his hand, and all the camera Den Den Mushi they had installed at the hot spring resort exploded, causing the screen in the monitoring room to turn into a static display.

"Boss, what do we do now?" the subordinate controlling the surveillance asked Tesoro.

"Stop monitoring Whitebeard and Reyner! As for the damaged camera Den Den Mushi, send someone to replace it tomorrow!" Tesoro said after thinking for a moment.

"And what about the captains?" the monitoring staff asked, pointing to the Whitebeard Pirates captains being monitored on the screen.

"Continue monitoring!"

"Yes, boss!"

Meanwhile, after discovering that Reina had tampered with the security cameras at the hot spring resort, Whitebeard showed no surprise, indicating that he already knew about it.

"Big brother... why do I feel your body..." Reina asked hesitantly after destroying the surveillance footage.

"Gurararara... Don't worry about it. No one can escape time, not even pure gold. The Doctor discovered this before. He said it might be because my body is too strong or the energy in my body has a certain resistance to pure gold, so the effect of pure gold is not that great on me!" Whitebeard replied with a smile.

"But...why can I use pure gold? Logically speaking, if it's because of my body and energy, then I should be able to resist the energy of pure gold! But look, I'm still the same as I was a few years ago!" Reina asked suspiciously, "Could it be that you took off the pure gold and conspired with the Doctor to lie to me, brother?!"

"Fool... Your strength is still increasing, and your body has clearly not yet entered the aging stage, so you don't feel it very clearly. When you reach the aging stage, you will understand that the loss of that power cannot be stopped by pure gold!" Whitebeard said with a laugh and a scolding tone.

Reyna was much younger than Whitebeard and not much older than Marco, so even though he and Whitebeard called each other brothers, no one called him uncle.

"Alright, don't dwell on this. At least on the surface, I don't look so bad! You should think about how to lure Teach over! I feel that if we fail this time..." Whitebeard didn't finish his sentence, but Reina knew that if they failed this time, they might miss the best opportunity to capture Teach.

"Don't worry! With the Dark-Dark Fruit, Teach will definitely come. In his eyes, the Dark-Dark Fruit is more important than anything else. It's the most crucial step in all his plans!" Reina said confidently.

Meanwhile, Blackbeard Teach, who was heading towards the Golden City Grand De Solo, felt a strange unease in his heart, as if something was about to happen.

"Lafayette... has the intelligence from over there come through?" Teach asked Lafayette beside him after pondering for a while.

"Yes, it's been passed on, Captain!" Lafayette said, handing a small note to Blackbeard Teach.

“Very good~ Reina... Even if you set a trap, you will never expect what I will do! Zhehahaha... Once I get the Dark-Dark Fruit... then I will have the power to conquer the world! At that time... I will make you pay back everything you owe me!” Teach said with a strange laugh, his eyes flashing with an eerie light.

"Captain...we've spotted the Grand De Solo!" Van Auger, the lookout, shouted to Teach.

“Very good, Kadrick, it’s time for you to shine!” Teach said to Kadrick, the user of the Transformation Fruit.

“No problem, just watch me!” Kadlec nodded with a smile and said.

"Speaking of which, Captain... if our operation fails this time... then the Blackbeard Pirates will have no reason to exist, right?" Ydal, the former captain of the Hunter Pirates and a demon hunter, said softly, stroking the blade in his hand.

“That makes sense! Without the Dark-Dark Fruit, the rest of the plan can’t be carried out, right?” Gamenio, the Copy-Copy Fruit user, said with a light laugh.

"Hahaha... Don't worry... This time it'll be foolproof!" Teach said with a confident smile.

"Since that's the case... then let's prepare to make our move!"

Thus, under Khadrick's power, the entire Blackbeard Pirates were completely transformed into a different group, heading towards the Golden City, Grand Tesoro.

Meanwhile, the Whitebeard Pirates, who were having a great time on the Grand Tesoro, were completely unaware of anything amiss. However, Reina encountered many familiar faces there.

"Yo~ Isn't this Admiral Kizaru of the Navy? What brings you here? On vacation?" Reina said with a light laugh as he looked at Admiral Kizaru, who was dressed in casual clothes.

"Oh dear~ really... I finally got to go on vacation, but I didn't expect to run into such a troublesome pirate! What should I do? This is really a headache!" Kizaru said with a smile, as if he had really bumped into Reina by chance.

Reina gave Kizaru a thumbs up, which startled Kizaru, who was completely bewildered. No one could match Monkey D. Kizaru's acting skills!

Of course, that was just a joke among fans from the previous generation; it doesn't mean that Kizaru is actually Luffy's relative.

"It's alright! This is... the Golden City! A safe zone authorized by the World Government. No one is allowed to make a move here. It's a special order from your World Government... isn't it? I even saw a Celestial Dragon just now!" Reina said with a smile.

Upon hearing Reina's words, Kizaru's expression changed. He cursed the ungrateful Celestial Dragons inwardly. They had already notified the World Government to evacuate the Celestial Dragons in Golden City, yet there were still Celestial Dragons here.

The Whitebeard Pirates are no ordinary crew. Given the Celestial Dragons' nature, it's highly likely that you'll offend them. Once you're angered, they won't care if you're a descendant of some creator or not; they'll beat you up without hesitation. Moreover, Whitebeard himself is here. If a fight really breaks out, even Kizaru himself isn't confident.

"Don't worry, our goal is just to gather enough materials for the second upgrade of Xuan Yue Island. As you know, our pirate crew has expanded quite a bit recently, and many facilities on Xuan Yue Island are almost outdated, so we have to expand them! So as long as those idiots don't go too far, we won't take action against them!" Reina said with a smile when he saw Kizaru's expression.

"Is that so? That's really unfortunate! The more prosperous you are, the worse it is for us!" Kizaru said with a slight smile.

Just looking at him, no matter how you looked at him, Reina felt that this guy was a sleazy old man.

"Hey~~ Look... look... who's here! Isn't that your teacher? Admiral Kizaru, you don't even bow to your teacher? That's not very polite!" At this moment, seeing Zephyr walking over from a distance, Reina immediately teased Kizaru.

“In his eyes, I probably no longer exist as his teacher! So he's long since stopped bothering with those fake things!” Zephyr, accompanied by Binz and Ein, came to Reina and said without even glancing at Kizaru.

Kizaru remained silent in response to Zephyr's words, but he did not leave either.

"Hey old man Zefa, why aren't you catching pirates at sea? What are you doing here? You're not allowed to catch pirates here!" Reina asked curiously.

"The reason I'm here... Hahahaha... Reina, trying to play dumb? I'm still a member of the Navy! If you try to attack the Navy again, I'll have to stop you here!" Zephyr said with a loud laugh.

"Fufufufu... It's really lively here!" Doflamingo, wearing a pink feather coat, slowly walked over with Trebol.

"Hey, hey, hey... These are all your people! What do you want? You're not planning to kill me here, are you?" Reina said, shrugging after seeing Donquixote Doflamingo, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.

“I don’t think… they’re so irrational as to make a move here!” Before Reina could finish speaking, Charlotte Katakuri appeared with her brothers and sisters, speaking expressionlessly.

"Tsk tsk tsk... Everyone came with their own people. Hey... Kizaru, you and I are the least prestigious ones here! Your Navy doesn't need more people, does it?"

Kizaru chuckled and said, "Oh dear~~ That's terrifying! I was so scared I almost called for backup!"

Although Kizaru said that, he didn't seem scared at all. However, as soon as he finished speaking, many officers in naval uniforms appeared around him and came to his side.

"No way? You want to outnumber us?" Reina's lips curled up slightly, and he was about to speak when he saw a huge man walk over.

"It's so lively... how could we beasts be missing..."

"boom!"

"Boom~~~"